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Data from Schools and Districts Show
Progress in Developing Partnership Programs
More than 750 schools and over 100 districts returned their 2009 NNPS UPDATE surveys to evaluate the quality and progress of their partnership programs. The schools and districts were from over 30 states, D.C., and Canada. They served economically, racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse communities, families, and students...
New NNPS Fees and Professional Development to Improve Members’ Programs
The recent grant that supported research on partnership program implementation enabled NNPS to subsidize costs to members. Now, NNPS must cover the real costs of its benefits and services, as indicated in the following fee structure. Starting July 1, 2010, schools, districts, states, and organizations will pay a one-time processing fee of $400 to join NNPS and to receive all benefits and services. All new members...
Issues and Insights:
NNPS Professional Development Sequence Will Help More Districts and Schools
NNPS is a growing network of schools, districts, states, and organizations that want to use research-based approaches and tools to improve and sustain their programs of family and community involvement. On their membership forms, all new members of NNPS explain a goal to improve partnerships in three years, but not every member progresses at the same rate. Some move swiftly toward their goals and become Partnership Award winners. Others move slowly and need help to advance their programs...
Middle and High School Report:
Middle and High Schools that PLAN Their Partnership Programs Actually HAVE Good Partnership Programs that Keep Improving
Great partnership programs in middle and high schools are the result of great plans with age-appropriate and goal-linked activities that engage all families with their teens in ways that support student success in school. And, great plans are produced by well-functioning Action Teams for Partnerships (ATPs) that meet, write plans, implement activities, and evaluate their efforts.
Meeting the Challenge:
Increase Partnership Practices for STEM Subjects
Since 2006, the U. S. Department of Education has stressed the importance of boosting student achievement in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics – collectively referred to as STEM subjects. Across the country, states, districts, and schools are working to meet targets for student learning in math and science, close gaps in achievement test scores between groups of racially and linguistically diverse students, improve U.S. students’ skills and scores compared with students in other nations...
Leadership Line:
NNPS Samplers Link Research with Practices in Reading, Math, and Science
NNPS is a unique professional development organization: Our research informs practice and your practice informs our research! The marriage of research with practice helps members of NNPS to design and implement activities that address important goals for student success.
Elementary School Report:
Create a Welcoming Climate for All Families
Every school’s One-Year Action Plan for Partnerships includes a goal to strengthen the climate of partnerships . This is important because the other pages of the plan schedule family and community involvement activities that help increase students’ academic success and improve behavior. In order for goal-linked practices to succeed, however, the school must be a welcoming place for all partners.
Our Growing Network - Spring 2010 (pdf)
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